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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
These activities help young learners build skills in literacy, creativity, and communication while using everyday materials and exploring interesting topics. A series of five, each activity uses objects from across the Smithsonian as a jumping-off point for learning through play as well as tips for
Resource Type(s):
Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
These activities help young learners build skills in literacy, creativity, and communication while using everyday materials and exploring interesting topics. A series of five, each activity uses objects from across the Smithsonian as a jumping-off point for learning through play as well as tips for
Resource Type(s):
Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
"Summer Road Trip” is a new 40-page activity guide that uses the vast collections and expertise of the Smithsonian to take learners on their own summer “road trip” of discovery. Through hands-on activities, puzzles and games, students will explore topics in STEM, history, and the arts. The gui
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Everyday objects such as pennies and dollar bills can go unnoticed in our lives. We use them all the time, but how often do we really look at them? Taking the time to investigate a familiar thing in detail and then learning to design something similar will strengthen your child’s observati
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Lessons & Activities, Interactives & Media
Although many children are already familiar with what money looks like and with how and when their families use money, it is important that they also understand how money itself works. The money we use, coins and currency, has very little value on its own. Coins and bills only h
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
In this activity, children and adults will take a trip together to explore a locally owned
business in their community. Children and adults will use the suggested questions to learn
more about what it takes to run a business while thinking about the business history of their
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Reference Materials, Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
Although many Americans are turning more and more to credit cards to buy the things they want, most Americans still handle paper money and coins on a regular basis. It is important for children (and adults!) to be comfortable counting and handling money and to think about the people and ide
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Interactives & Media, Lessons & Activities
This useful reading guide will help engage young readers as they read Lemonade in Winter: a Book About Two Kids Counting Money, a children's book based that tells the story of two siblings who decide to spend an otherwise snowy winter's day opewning a lemonade sta
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Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
Learn how architects use paper to represent plans for buildings. Make two- and three-dimensional representations of your home using close observation and measurements. Part of an OurStory module entitled Building Beautiful Buildings, this activity includes step-by-step instructions
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Lessons & Activities
Think about your favorite building in the world.If it's nearby, go out and take a picture of it, if not, pull a photo out of a book or off of the internet. Then use this picture to identify all of the geometric shapes you can see that make up the building, shapes the building's architect used to
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A picture book for older readers celebrates George Washington’s role, not as victorious general and first president, but as lifelong farmer.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Children's biography of Louise Smith, race car driver and first woman elected to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A Jewish immigrant who is saving money to bring his wife and children to join him in American creates ornate horses for a carousel on coney island; one for each member of his family.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
After World War II, a young girl named Mariko and her family are finally allowed to leave the internment camp. They are faced with many difficulties while trying to rebuild their lives as free citizens.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
The story of a group of slaves' escape on the underground railroad by following directions from the song "follow the drinking gourd."
Author:
Carole Boston Weatherford
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Connie, a fictional young girl, witnesses the student sit-ins at the lunchcounter in Greensboror, North Carolina. Her family is involved in NAACP voter registration, sit-ins, and picketing during the civil rights moevement.
Author:
Karen Lynn Williams
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
The story of a young boy's persistence in creating his own toy vehicle, or galimoto.
Author:
Suzanne Tripp Jurmain
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
Based in part on recollections by George Washington Parke Custis, Washington's adopted son, this is a factual, focused, and entertaining account of the making of the nation's first president.
Author:
Arthur John L'Hommedieu
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A photographic chronology of the process of creating blue jeans, from the harvesting of the cotton, to the sewing of the fabric.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Presents a brief look at the life of George Washington Carver
